Aaron Florian Apartment Building
ADN Birou de Arhitectura. Bucharest, Romania
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Name of work in English
Aaron Florian Apartment Building
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Name of work in original language
Imobil de apartamente în București, strada Aaron Florian
Prize year
EUmies Awards 2017
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Work Location
Bucharest, Romania
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Studio
ADN Birou de Arhitectura
EUmies Awards 2017 Nominees
One of the first housing projects of the office, the Aaron Florian Apartment Building, completed only mid last year, is an honest answer to a particular urban setting: an irregular plot, the closeness of the opposite building raising privacy issues, a blind wall to a difficult neighbor and an inflection of the street.
Program
Collective housing
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Labels
Infill · Shaped
Site area
593.3 m²
Completion
2015
All these produce an atypical configuration - a building with floors successively recessed, the upper floors providing more light to the narrow street and the exterior spaces directing the views along it. The retracted plinth gives the building a lightsome, almost detached appearance, connected to the ground only by the tectonic effect of the stairs leading into the building.
The transparency of the ground floor allows for commercial or office spaces to open themselves to the street, thus livening this rather narrow and trafficless blind alley. Floors 1 to 3 comprise three apartments each, while the last floor contains two larger apartments with terraces both at their level and on the rooftop, that provide spectacular views of one of the most beautiful neighborhoods in Bucharest.
- concrete structure - masonry exterior and interior walls - natural wood and stone floorings